Tag Archives: Black Swan

As I write this Washington Mutual had just collapsed–”the largest bank failure in American history”–and the bailout talks just ended in chaos. Swell. I’m ignorant when it comes to the complexity of economics. But it seems to me that there are plenty of blame to go around: government, banks, and people who took loans they […]

Here are two theological blogs grooving on the “skeptical empiricism” championed in The Black Swan. via The Presbeterian Polis: Theory-based or Experienced based “Does this mean that all theology is wrong-headed. No. It simply means that theoretical systems are idealistic human creations that seek to create a coherent perspective based on a selection of ideas […]

“Imagine a speck of dust next to planet a billion times the size of the earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it. So stop sweating the small stuff. Don’t be like an ingrate who got a castle as a […]

After reading the book, The Hot Topic (check out my review here), I was encouraged to read more books from a European perspective (I’m still here in Ireland as of this writing). So me and ~myDakini stopped by Eason bookstore yesterday so I could check out new books to read. “You’re addicted to books,” ~myDakini […]